Unified understanding of both thermally assisted and precessional spin-transfer switching in perpendicularly magnetized giant magnetoresistive nanopillars

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Tomita, H ^a   Miwa, S ^a   Nozaki, T ^a   Yamashita, S ^a   Nagase, T ^b   Nishiyama, K ^b   Kitagawa, E ^b   Yoshikawa, M ^b   Daibou, T ^b   Nagamine, M ^b   Kishi, T ^b   Ikegawa, S ^b   Shimomura, N ^b   Yoda, H ^b   Suzuki, Y ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; CURRENT PULSE; EMPIRICAL PARAMETERS; EXPERIMENT DATA; GIANT MAGNETORESISTIVE; MAGNETIZATION SWITCHING; NANOPILLARS; PARAMETER SET; SPIN TRANSFER; SPIN-TRANSFER SWITCHING; SWITCHING PROPERTIES;

GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE;

MAGNETIC RECORDING;

EID: 84873579256     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4789879     Document Type: Article

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